Early childhood eating habits are crucial for lifelong metabolic health, with doctors warning that the first decade lays the ...

Houston – Heart disease continues to be the number one killer in the United States. This American Heart Month, we’re learning ways to help keep children heart-healthy, it’s important for parents to ...

Caregivers who follow a vegetarian, vegan or other plant-based diet may wonder whether it’s wise for their children to follow the same eating plan. A well-balanced vegetarian diet can meet a baby or ...

Whole milk does not increase risk of heart disease. According to “ Advances in Nutrition ,” whole milk does not increase ...

April 18 (UPI) --More than half of parents in the United States say that it's difficult to get children to eat a balanced diet, and half report that they regularly give them dietary supplements, ...

Vegetarian diets can be perfectly healthy for kids of all ages, even infants, but it's important to not let them be a french-fry-vegetarian, which focuses only on not eating meat. Beans, tofu, diary, ...

Public-health trials and meta-analyses show that improving intake of these nutrients through foods or, where appropriate, fortified staples reduces stunting and improves cognitive outcomes. Snacks ...

In the past few decades, the pendulum has swung in many families. Parents once pressured kids to eat everything on their plates to avoid wasting food and take one more bite. But today, those plates ...

Summer vacations often look different than they used to. Children may prefer tablet time to pool time, spending days on their phones instead of in the sun, or connecting with friends through gaming ...